kiddthunder Posted January 25 Posted January 25 Hi, I am new and after getting everything working as I like I decided to get the full lifetime license. Then as I kept tinkering I noticed my mame set was not in the games folder (desktop instead) so I wanted to move it. Before moving it I thopught maybe I'd reimport the mame set and figured it would just update the references. But I decided the cancel before doing the import on the last step. This had me reinstall mame during the import. At this point nothing was moved, I simply canceled midway through. I thought nothing had changed. Anyway, I went to run a game and now nothing happens. I then deleted everything and tried again with no luck. I even uninstalled LB a few times and reinstalled it, again no luck. I even deleted the LB folder to where there was nothing but my games folder and license key, reinstalled and when I try launching a game it now says "Now loading ..." and then nothing happens. I tried running the mame from emulator directory via command prompt and I got this message "Unable to create the Direct3D device (8876086C) Unable to initialize Direct3D 9 Fatal error: Unable to complete window creation". I do not know if is because I didn't have any params with the mame.exe file or what. Maybe it is a directx problem? I am baffled what is wrong. Obviously I tried restarting windows a few times too with no luck. My console games still work. Mame games were previously working and I had tested a few to see how the controls were etc. Now nothing. I am to the point of considering a fresh install of windows just to get it working again. Any thoughts or help? Quote
kiddthunder Posted January 25 Author Posted January 25 Update. the problem is definitely directx. I tried opening mame.ini and changed video setting from auto to opengl. Now t works. I want to try to fix the directx even though the dxdiag says it is working fine. Obviously you can't find the installer online anywhere... Quote
sundogak Posted January 25 Posted January 25 31 minutes ago, kiddthunder said: Update. the problem is definitely directx. I tried opening mame.ini and changed video setting from auto to opengl. Now t works. I want to try to fix the directx even though the dxdiag says it is working fine. Obviously you can't find the installer online anywhere... Can download from MS site. https://download.microsoft.com/download/1/7/1/1718CCC4-6315-4D8E-9543-8E28A4E18C4C/dxwebsetup.exe Quote
kiddthunder Posted January 25 Author Posted January 25 11 hours ago, sundogak said: Can download from MS site. https://download.microsoft.com/download/1/7/1/1718CCC4-6315-4D8E-9543-8E28A4E18C4C/dxwebsetup.exe Thanks I did reinstall directX but the problem persists. I probably need to do a full uninstall and whipe any app data from directx and try again. For now I am up and running with opengl. Thanks Quote
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